His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

* The top players of the day: world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, and those who had qualified for ( or been seeded into ) the inaugural Candidates Tournament in 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó.

# Any player qualifying from the Interzonal tournament to play in the Candidates Tournament, even if he did not play in the Candidates for any reason.

She then confirmed her status as one of the world's leading players, narrowly failing to qualify for the Candidates Tournaments at the rival FIDE and PCA Interzonal tournaments.

In May – June 2007 she played in the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007.

Candidates for an undergraduate degree must also pass oral and written comprehensive exams in their major field of study.

Candidates for members of parliament are voted upon when the prime minister asks the Governor-General to call a national election, a maximum of five years after the previous national election.

Candidates for bishop are chosen only from among the celibate.

Candidates for deputy had to be able to read and write, and have a certain amount of wealth.

Some of political parties from Catalonia, the Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands that follow this idea are the Republican Left of Catalonia, Catalan Solidarity for Independence ( SI ), Rally for Independence and Republican Left of the Valencian Country, Estat Català, Partit Republicà Català, Popular Unity Candidates, Valencian Nationalist Bloc, Bloc per Mallorca, etc.

Candidates for office, like Jill Stein who is running to become the party's 2012 presidential contender, rely on smaller donations to fund their campaigns.

* Warrant officer candidate school, the entry-level training for Warrant Officer Candidates in the United States Army

* Candidates for government office must take civil-service examinations.

Category: Candidates for the Polish elective throne

Category: Candidates for the Polish elective throne

Category: Candidates for the Polish elective throne

Category: Candidates for the Polish elective throne

Category: Candidates for the French presidential election, 2007

Candidates for " safe districts " are determined by the central party office.

Candidates were disqualified for petty reasons such as acts of vandalism against campaign posters.

Candidates could not be nominated by organizations and associations but had to run for district office on the basis of personal qualifications and service to their communities.

Candidates for admission generally must both apply directly to the academy and receive a nomination, usually from a Member of Congress.

Candidates for the Forbes list were fugitives thought to be dangerous who had " a long history of committing serious crimes ", who had been indicted or charged with a crime in a national jurisdiction or by an international tribunal, and who were involved with a type of criminal activity " with which legal institutions in diverse jurisdictions are grappling ".

Candidates were usually, but not necessarily, from the same lineage as the deceased leader.

Candidates to profession were tested to reveal whether they were actually married women who had merely separated from their husbands.

Candidates pledged to Taft were printed on the ballot in a Taft column, and candidates pledged to Foraker were printed in a column under his name.

Candidates were also judged on their skills of deportment, appearance, speech, and level of skill in calligraphy, all of which were subjective criteria that allowed the already wealthy members of society to be chosen over ones of more modest means who were unable to be educated in rhetoric or fanciful writing skills.

Candidates of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union, who despite their party's official stance of not non-affiliation, were deemed sympathetic to the coalition and ran unopposed by other blue candidates in almost all the seats it contested.

Although responses to Fischer's allegations were mixed, FIDE later adjusted the rules and format to try to prevent future collusion in the Candidates matches.

Candidates for positions in the civil service and the officers corps of the military were required to pass the imperial examination, as required by the Classics.

Candidates were almost always male, Greek, educated citizens holding a minimum of wealth and status.

Candidates for doctoral degrees were accompanied by the Rector in a parade called Paseo de los Doctores from Intramuros to Santo Domingo Church, where University commencement exercises were held until the 17th century.

* Vasily Smyslov vs David Bronstein, Candidates ' Tournament, Amsterdam 1956, English Opening ( A34 ), 1 – 0 The two players were fighting for the right to qualify, late in the tournament, and Smyslov finds a way to come out on top.

Candidates were not run in Newfoundland and Labrador, as a result of ongoing divisions over Joan Russow's refusal to endorse the Green candidate in an earlier St. John's West by-election.

Candidates were rated in a number of categories on a scale of one to nine, with one being the worst mark and nine being the best mark.

Candidates for the kingship were at first the heads of the great stem duchies of Germany ; as these units broke up over time, rulers of smaller principalities and even foreign rulers came to be considered for the position.

Candidates were usually from the same lineage as the deceased leader but they were not necessarily his sons.

The Number of Candidates proposed were 30 of the MSM and 30 of the MMM. It was agreed and proposed that Jugnauth will held the office of Prime Minister for 3 years and Berenger would take up for the resting of the term. They also agreed that after the three years, Jugnauth would be sworn as President and that Pravind Jugnauth would be sworn as Deputy Prime Minister.

Candidates were referred to as “ NP Democrats ” and were required to sign a contract mandating a “ visible and active relationship ” with New Party.

At Amsterdam, he tied for first place, along with Mikhail Tal, Vasily Smyslov and Bent Larsen on 17 / 23, with all four, along with Borislav Ivkov and Lajos Portisch thus qualifying for the newly created Candidates ' Matches the next year.

From this position, White may choose to inflict the isolated pawn on Black, accept the weakness himself in return for active piece play, or play 6. a3, with a view to dxc5, followed by b4 and Bb2, aiming for positions in which the extra tempo will come in useful if Black keeps the symmetry ; thus, 6 ... Ne4, once chosen by Bobby Fischer in his Candidates Match with Tigran Petrosian in 1971, gives a different turn.

He gives Mori her power, thus breaking the most important rule of the tournament ( King Candidates can only give one power to one person ), in order to force himself to go to Hell so that the others would be saved from certain circumstances that threaten the rest of the Ueki Team.

More seriously, in the aftermath of the 1970 Interzonal tournament at Palma de Mallorca, he was accused of " throwing " his game against Mark Taimanov in return for a $ 400 bribe, thus allowing Taimanov to advance to the Candidates matches, where he was famously defeated by Bobby Fischer 6 – 0.